Originally Posted by
Doug64
It came off the car's roof-top rack's wheel carrier, at highway speeds. I'm not sure exactly what it hit. I know, it was not a good example of fragility
I also think that a light aluminum rim would have also been toast. It was just counter to the results the guys in the video got when they were beating the frame against the cement block. The wheel is pretty light,and depending on how it landed, it may have fared better.
Wasn't doing what it was designed to do. I don't get the resistance to carbon fiber. It isn't a miracle material any more than a metal alloy. (You can bet that a great many more steel frames been destroyed by mishaps than carbon fiber.)
I have had my share of crashes on both. I don't think I ever felt that one material felt weaker than the other. Sometimes you just crash badly and sometimes less so.
I think that carbon fiber is uniquely suitable for the fork. I wouldn't hesitate to put one on a steel frame. Carbon forks are, in my experience, very stiff and strong (when subject to forces for which it was designed) .
Buying a steel fork on the basis of speculative damage is too much of belt and suspenders approach for me.